[Noisebridge-discuss] FW: $50K of robot donation

Tony Longshanks LeTigre anthonyletigre at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 09:35:43 UTC 2013


Ah yes, the Great Video Game Crash of 1983. One of the greatest disasters
in all of preadolescent history, they say. I remember it well......

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Byrne <andrew at pachakutech.com>wrote:

> Things I learned today:
> -There was a video game crash of 1983
> -This was the second video game crash
> --dru
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> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:40 AM, John Withers <jwithers at reddagger.org>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2013-01-19 at 11:42 -0800, Peter Jansen wrote:
>>
>> > I remember seeing the Topos on TV when I was young -- It'd be fun to
>> > have one wandering the lab, perhaps hacked to do some interesting
>> > science.
>> >
>>
>> Yeah, I am thinking the exact same thing about one of those HEROs, which
>> I deeply coveted when I was young, and hence my quick posting about us
>> getting this stuff. I would love to add to the original and have it
>> doing interesting things (although I think I would probably take some
>> care to keep the original parts involved or hack it in such a way that
>> it could be fully restored to original condition easily).
>>
>> But I am having some slight misgivings the more I think it through. A
>> couple of the pieces on this list are unique or close enough. These
>> things are part of our historical culture. And the parts are from the
>> 80's and while they can be pressed into service, they aren't insanely
>> useful for modern projects. Given the nature of our folks, we are
>> obviously going to either reuse the parts or highly modify these units,
>> and with a few of them that would be nearly criminal. It would be like
>> ripping the screen out of a Vectrex to use it as a status display for a
>> quad copter sensor package or something. (and if anyone here knows where
>> there is a vectrex collecting dust, you can feel free to talk to me
>> about it...)
>>
>> -j
>>
>>
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